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Brigitte Choura is a teaching artist and actor based in New York City.  She is the Associate Artistic Director of DreamStreet, an organization that provides education and inspiration for adults living with developmental disabled individuals invested in the arts. She has taught workshops at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ and NYU Langone's Initiative for Women with Disabilities. She was recently seen in a staged reading of Inherit the Wind (with Jay O. Sanders and Len Cariou) for Sea Dog Theatre. She has toured nationally with Philadelphia’s Enchantment Theatre in their production of The Velveteen Rabbit and also performed in a limited engagement of Scheherazade, accompanied by the Cleveland Orchestra. She appeared as Violet in the independent feature film, Chasing Home. In New York, she studied with Austin Pendleton at H.B. Studio and performed alongside him in a reading of Christopher Boal's play, The Giant. She graduated from Muhlenberg College with a degree in English and Theatre. She is a co-founder of Third Wheel Collective.